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Columnists

Vancouver chef Karen Barnaby has the scoop — and the recipes — on the latest food trends. An accomplished author, she is Product & Business Development for Albion Fisheries and the former executive chef at the Fish House in Stanley Park.

Daphne Bramham has been a columnist at The Vancouver Sun since 2000. Her wide-ranging columns have resulted in a number of awards and in an honorary doctor of letters degree from Capilano University in 2013. She was a finalist in 2012 for the National Newspaper Award for column writing, an award that she won in 2005, the same year that she was named Commentator of the Year by the Jack Webster Foundation."

She is a three-time winner of the Beyond Borders Media Award for her investigative work on the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C. and for a series on sex tourism in Cambodia.
Her book on Bountiful - The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect - was published in 2008 by Random House and was a finalist for three national non-fiction book awards.

Prior to writing the column, she was the Sun's editorial page editor as well as the Asia-Pacific reporter.

Born in Saskatchewan, Bramham has a master of arts degree from Simon Fraser University, a bachelor of applied arts in journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto and a bachelor of arts degree in English and German literature from the University of Regina. She has been honoured as an outstanding alumna by both SFU and the University of Regina.

Don Cayo came to The Sun as editorial page editor in 2000, after working most of his career in Eastern Canada. In the fall of 2003, he made the switch to column writing.

He has worked in journalism all his adult life. At one time or another he has served as a newspaper writer and editor, a radio and television reporter and commentator, a wire service reporter, and a journalism teacher. From mid-1997 until mid-1999 he took a leave of absence to run
the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a business-funded think-tank based in Halifax, but he continued to write regular columns for eight newspapers across Canada.

Cayo has won several awards and fellowships including one National Newspaper Award and three nominations, and a B'nai Brith award for human rights reporting. In 2003 he won both the Population Institute's global award for population/environment reporting and a Canadian Association of Journalists fellowship to travel to Africa.

Cam Cole came to The Vancouver Sun in 2005 after seven years in Toronto as the principal sports columnist of The National Post. Born in Vegreville, Alta., he began his sportswriting career at The Edmonton Journal in 1975, and has been writing a daily sports column for the last 21 years.

You can reach Cam Cole with column ideas or topics worth discussing at ccole@vancouversun.com , and follow him on Twitter @rcamcole.

Greg Douglas was the original Vancouver Canucks public relations director and assistant to the general manager from 1970 to 1977. He has previously covered hockey, baseball and special events for The Vancouver Sun and is currently in his 17th year contributing his weekly Saturday sports notes column. Douglas was inducted into the media category of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.

Harvey Enchin has been studying Canadian economic and political issues for more than three decades, starting at the Reuters News Agency, moving to the Gazette in Montreal, the Globe and Mail in Toronto and finally The Vancouver Sun, where he served as business editor before joining the editorial board following a secondment in Winnipeg to help establish the CanWest News Service.

A stickler for statistics, he believes every decision is an economic decision, and his columns attempt to relate theory to practice - whether it be in investment, trade, taxation, or social policy - so that we make better ones.

In his spare time, Harvey reads The Economist.

Read Harvey Enchin's blog Everybody's Business. Enchin says every choice is a trade off; every decision is an economic one.

Shelley Fralic joined The Vancouver Sun as a reporter in 1979, just before graduating from the Langara College journalism program, and following a summer internship at the Quesnel Cariboo-Observer.

At The Sun, she has covered sports, business, religion, general news and features. In the mid-'80s, she held a number of assistant editor positions and, in 1990, was appointed deputy managing editor of the paper, a position she held until 1999, when she was named Executive Editor.

Several years ago, she returned to writing and today produces columns on a variety of subjects, including social issues, pop culture, and modern-day life.

Fralic has been a sessional instructor in the Masters program at the UBC School of Journalism, and has conducted numerous journalism lectures and workshops throughout her newspaper career.

She is currently chair of the Vancouver Sun Children's Fund, and is an industry director on the B.C. Press Council.

Anthony Gismondi was born in Hamilton, Ontario and came to British Columbia in 1972 to attend Simon Fraser University. Upon graduation his wine adventures began in earnest mostly because he didn't like beer, although he's come to appreciate that sector of the alcohol business too.

He has been writing on wine since 1983 and has been the weekly wine columnist for the Vancouver Sun since 1989. His reviews are widely read across the country and throughout the international wine community.

He is an executive editor with responsibilities for international wines at Wine Access - Canada's Essential Guide to Wine and Food, as well as a consultant to Air Canada where he assists in the selection of in-flight wines served system-wide by Canada's largest airline.

A writer, broadcaster and speaker, in 2002 he launched a comprehensive wine website www.gismondionwine.com that contains a large and growing database of wines and stories chronicling his work and adventures in the world of wine.

Recent Columns

As managing director at Rogers Group Financial, Clay Gillespie is one of those financial advisers who’s riding the Grey Wave. The majority of his clients are retirees. Some of those clients are on a fixed income, and it’s Gillespie’s job to find them spending room. For some of them, he finds it their municipal taxes.

Asian buyers have for some time been putting pressure on Vancouver’s stock of detached homes. Now China’s development industry is showing interest in the region’s commercial properties. It is part of a cross-Canada trend, says Colliers International in a report issued earlier this month: “Canadian property owners have traditionally been the incumbent buyers of real estate assets, but a growing mix of international property investors, specifically Chinese developers, are seeking to park their capital in stable markets like Canada.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper blurts an ill-considered reference to a little-worn item of Muslim dress as representing “anti-woman culture.” A Tweet under Immigration Minister Jason Kenny’s name circulates a photo of women acting in a religious rite that depicts an ancient bondage and misrepresents it as enslaved Muslim women today.